On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 10:15:55 AM +0100, Gianluca Turconi
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 20:05:16 +0100
> "M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > "I've found this bug in OO.o, please fix it soon, as it is it makes my
> > work so much slower and we can't afford proprietary SW". Imagine how
> > idiotic it would have been to say "please fix this yourself if it
> > bothers you so much, here's the source".
> >
[..]
> Really, I don't understand your point.
>
> Continuing your example, why in this "perfect" world should Mother
> Teresa's bug be more important than Pope John Paul II's one or mine?
I couldn't care less which one is more important. Why change the
subject? The problem is how naive it is to assume that:
a) "you could fix the source yourself" is still a valid and polite
answer to give to free desktops newcomers.
b) only those who *can* contribute to a FOSS project have the right to
complain about it or ask others for help.
> It's what I did with the Italian spellchecker. I need it and there's
> none, so I did it.
Precisely my point. You *had* the skills and, above all, the spare
time to do it (both what you did yourself and what you coordinated/
stimulated). Sincere thanks, absolutely, but it doesn't mean that
everybody else who didn't was scratching his or her belly. Or, to
stick to the original point, it doesn't prove at all that the FOSS
development model can ever scale for desktop applications, or improve
them as the userbase grows, as it is still naively assumed by many
(not me, Andrew or you).
Ciao,
Marco
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